Kickass Torrents & Eircom. (MOD: No Posting torrent site links!)

Patty O Furniture

I don't want to go off topic, but wanted to know if RSS Feeds are now the way to go, primarily for tv, as i'm using it for the past while when i used to go to isohunt for torrents, but someone kindly left the idea on torrentfreak.

A yes or no would suffice as i dont know if you cant talk about it in detail, as i use showrss.

Thanks.

Btw: kickass isnt blocked now, but someone kindly left the mirror a while ago, as i was using that one.

StaticNoise

After reading the developments in this thread, I went along and tried out the websites mentioned.

The main Kickass Torrents website has, for me, become entirely unblocked. As is The Pirate Bay, on one of their 'former' domains.
This is not a proxy, but using a former TLD which they used during the 'we move every week to avoid the authorities' days.

briany

Does anybody have any idea why KAT is unblocked as of right now?

Edit: Someone on the Ireland subreddit saying that KAT changed their IP. I thought Eircom's blocking policy would have allowed for IP changes at least.

wonski

Just so you know I am with eircom and it doesn't look to be blocked.
Didn't try any tricks so not sure what happens there...

briany

Checked KAT earlier on and was hit with the block message. Checked just now and got through on two devices. Odd. Really think it's just some hitch in the system with Eircom.

inc21

I got free app called ultrasurf from google and all is good again.

wheresmybeaver

As of 5 minutes ago ThePirateBay and Kickass seem both to be accessible via their normal web addresses, no proxying going on. Vodafone eFibre. That's kind of strange, have the ISPs looked to that recent case in the Netherlands and realised there's no point? IRMA must be fuming..

Spear

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

As of 5 minutes ago ThePirateBay and Kickass seem both to be accessible via their normal web addresses, no proxying going on. Vodafone eFibre. That's kind of strange, have the ISPs looked to that recent case in the Netherlands and realised there's no point? IRMA must be fuming..

They'd be in violation of a court order to unblock them unilaterally, even if it's pointless to try. It seems their block is a simple manual one that's defeated when the blocked sites change IP. The worse alternative is the one in Sky which blocked any IP claimed by a site, the result of which was a case where a blocked site deliberately added a DNS response for another site, causing Sky to block them, meaning they could essentially block any site on the Sky network at will.

Engine No.9

Spear wrote: »

They'd be in violation of a court order to unblock them unilaterally, even if it's pointless to try. It seems their block is a simple manual one that's defeated when the blocked sites change IP. The worse alternative is the one in Sky which blocked any IP claimed by a site, the result of which was a case where a blocked site deliberately added a DNS response for another site, causing Sky to block them, meaning they could essentially block any site on the Sky network at will.

Shh. Stop giving em ideas

ALiasEX

3 now show the pirate bay block for kickasstorrents. Two proxies I tested are not blocked.

tonyheaney

briany wrote: »

Does anybody have any idea why KAT is unblocked as of right now?

Edit: Someone on the Ireland subreddit saying that KAT changed their IP. I thought Eircom's blocking policy would have allowed for IP changes at least.

Its still blocked here so don't know how your getting it???

briany

tonyheaney wrote: »

Its still blocked here so don't know how your getting it

On the Internet things can change a lot in a week, which is how long ago I posted that message.

naughto

i wounder whats in tonys folder

tonyheaney

naughto wrote: »

i wounder whats in tonys folder

OH no iver been found out :eek::eek::eek: Just lots of gay porn and photos of pussy riot in their knickers mate noting clean I assure you :D:D

firestarter51

working for me now on vodafone, happy days

tonyheaney

naughto wrote: »

i wounder whats in tonys folder

dam boards.ie deleted the 4some pic i had of the pussy riot girls :mad::mad::mad::mad:

naughto

tonyheaney wrote: »

dam boards.ie deleted the 4some pic i had of the pussy riot girls :mad::mad::mad::mad:

You're prob lucky u didn't get banned for it

GerardKeating

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Piratebay is blocked on all, Kickass and all the others are available on UPC, but i'm sure it won't be long before all follow suit.

Proxy baby :pac:

PB not blocked on all...

tonyheaney

naughto wrote: »

You're prob lucky u didn't get banned for it

hehehe

tonyheaney

GerardKeating wrote: »

PB not blocked on all...

nope still blocked and with yellow and red warnings

GerardKeating

tonyheaney wrote: »

nope still blocked and with yellow and red warnings

But not on all ISP's

Some of the smaller ones seem to have "forgotten".

ibFoxer

PB not blocked for me on telecom eireann :P

donegal.

piratebay, kickass, yify all working fine on utv

Mits

Kickass no longer blocked on Vodafone???

Engine No.9

Mits wrote: »

Kickass no longer blocked on Vodafone???

Yup. I'd say it's only a glitch on refreshing the servers or something. No fear it'll be blocked again by morning soon as an engineer spots it.... Or sees this thread

Engine No.9

I'm completely wrong. It's still unblocked.

wheresmybeaver

pajopearl wrote: »

I'm completely wrong. It's still unblocked.

its been completely unblocked for me on Vodafone for at least a week now. Sometimes it takes a little while to load up, but when it eventually does its business as usual.

its all very mysterious.

Patty O Furniture

foxerv1 wrote: »

PB not blocked for me on telecom eireann :P

Blocked with me on eircom since day 1, but have found isohunt -> kickass since then

donegal. wrote: »

piratebay, kickass, yify all working fine on utv

It was down for a few hours last nite, but thank google & proxies for that

wheresmybeaver

Aaaaaand blocked again on Vodafone as of yesterday! Except now the blocked message has the eircom logo.

I'm beginning to think there's some backhaul issues out there (storm related? efibre congestion related?), traffic is getting rerouted around the place, and the torrent site blocks are low enough priority that they're the last things to get sorted.

adox

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Aaaaaand blocked again on Vodafone as of yesterday! Except now the blocked message has the eircom logo.

I'm beginning to think there's some backhaul issues out there (storm related? efibre congestion related?), traffic is getting rerouted around the place, and the torrent site blocks are low enough priority that they're the last things to get sorted.

I was using it around 6 yesterday evening without a workaround.

firestarter51

It's working for me on Vodafone
The site has changed to
Kickass.to

tonyheaney

the mirrors are Working not the main site is all

wheresmybeaver

adox wrote: »

I was using it around 6 yesterday evening without a workaround.

Never mind me.. looks like Chrome was caching kickass.to since my last attempt on an eircom connection. Just tried there again on my Vodafone connection, refreshed the page a few times and it's back on.

Cherrycola

Kickass working for me too on eircom, but weirdly the page loads perfectly on my ipad, but on the laptop it's loading as just blue text, no graphics. Still able to use it though.

I wonder is it linked to eircoms efibre rollout, cos our area has only just gone live last week.

JSR_85

Hey pals! I use pirate browser for it and can navigate all these torrent web sites
piratebrowser . com

tonyheaney

i have kickass as one of my pages and its been fighting to get through lol

AlanS181824

On Vodafone I don't get any message saying ThePirateBay is blocked, it just won't load, is that the same for everyone?

KickAss works grand.

firestarter51

This works for me on Vodafone <SNIP>

BenRowe

flutered wrote: »

or install torch browser, a damm handy yoke,

wiki says it is commercial freeware, what is that?

firestarter51

BenRowe wrote: »

wiki says it is commercial freeware, what is that?

Google is your friend

KOR101

firestarter51 wrote: »

Google is your friend

Google in NOT your friend. Always go to Duckduckgo.com for this sort of stuff.